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Old 07-30-2013, 09:26 PM   #89 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by P-hack View Post
And electric motors only seem efficient by comparison because they burned all the coal already in charging the battery, if you looked at the efficiency from the coals perspective (like the fuels perspective) it would be an entirely different story. The abstracting of the energy source leads to some lazy thinking, be it a power plant or a generator.
And Coal is just horribly low efficient solar energy path.

If you want to track it back ... a Solar BEV wins the complete cycle energy efficiency by a large margin.
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